Flutterby™! : Remember the Alamo

Quora: William Morrison's answer to "When the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor, was the US already at war with the British or did the Civil War start because of that?"

... Down south, Santa Anna had taken advantage of all the confusion to raise an army and seize control of Alamo. Why a saintly old lady with no record of mob violence would have felt the sudden urge to muscle in on the car hire game like that remains unclear even to this day ...